Also worth considering: We charge $99 per year for a MobileMe subscription. Google gives you the same stuff and all they ask for is, um, permission to totally invade your privacy and to “monetize” (God I hate that word) your personal information. You think your personal information is worth less than $99 a year? Then you’re getting a hell of a deal with Google. The rest of us would rather spent $99 and keep the contents of our email to ourselves.
The linked article isn’t really about privacy, but Fake Steve makes a great point. My privacy IS worth $99 a year. The only thing stopping me from using a me.com address is that Gmail is a better service than MobileMe. I’d be happy to use MobileMe services if they were on-par with Googles, but for the moment, their just not. I might even settle for MobileMe if I could use it with my own domain name.
via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : One more thing — Google is switching all employees to Macs.